It is sometimes the right wing who puts in place things that are socialist or progressive

South Korea had universal health care bestowed on them in the 1960s by authoritarian 'dictator' Park, father of the current female South Korea President Park now in impeachment

Much of the USA's environment protection etc agencies date from their President Richard Nixon

And now, Donald Trump apparently fufilling his stated intentions from 17 years ago, with Trump's announcement this week that Trump seeks to give health insurance to all Americans for the 1st time in USA history, along with his attacks on pharma company drug pricing etc

Donald Trump, writing in his 2000 book, 'The America We Deserve':(... where Trump also 'predicted' a likely terrorist attack on a major US city, Trump publishing one year before 11 Sep 2001 ...)

"We must have universal healthcare. ... I'm a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one. We should not hear so many stories of families ruined by healthcare expenses. .... Doctors might be paid less than they are now, as is the case in Canada, but they would be able to treat more patients because of the reduction in their paperwork...The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than Americans. There are fewer medical lawsuits, less loss of labor to sickness, and lower costs to companies paying for the medical care of their employees. If the program were in place in Massachusetts in 1999 it would have reduced administrative costs by $2.5 million. We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing."